Our concrete interlocking roof tiles and concrete plain tiles are easy to lay thus ensuring you can keep your installation costs down.
Marley concrete roof tiles minimum pitch.
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What are the minimum pitches for clay or concrete tiles.
All tiles and slates have a minimum roof pitch which is set out in order to protect the roof from water penetration.
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The minimum pitch for each product can be found in the table below and in the product brochure or within the products pages some tiles and slates incorporate design features allowing them to be laid at a low minimum pitch.
With the introduction of machine made clay tiles this has now dropped slightly to 30 similar to the marley hawkins single camber tile.
For example the marley wessex concrete tile offers great flexibility as a demonstration of a low pitch roof tile.
Double lap fibre cement slates where the roof slope exceeds 6 metres in length severe very severe exposure and 9 metres in length sheltered moderate exposure.
Nominal weight of roof tile fittings.
They have also been certified as excellent for bes 6001 which means that projects using these products can now achieve extra credits under breeam and hqm as well as an a rating in bre green guide.
And our brand new mendip 12 5 can be used at an even lower pitch of 12 5 restrictions on rafter length may apply.
Previously it was accepted that 35 was the lowest recommended pitch for both concrete and clay variants of the tile.
Our melodie interlocking clay pantile can be used in roof pitches as low as a 12 5 our wessex and mendip concrete roof tiles can be used down to a minimum 15 pitch.
12 5 44 pitch with a rafter length up to 6m will require a 100mm headlap all of our concrete interlocking tiles can achieve an a rating which has the lowest environmental impact in the building research establishment s green guide to specification.
The minimum fixing specifications given in this document is intended to assist the specifier and roof tiler in southern africa to determine the minimum recommended installation and tile fixing specification for each terrain category basic design wind speed building type roof pitch building height length of roof.
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